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Victoria Falls: A Post-Collapse American Nation Quest [Down With Victoria!]

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[X][IDEALS] New Capitalist: Aims to restore the old system with badly-needed revisions to address some of the obvious flaws. Among other things, it mandates a living minimum wage tied to government-collected measures, writes into foundational law the de-personhood of anybody who is not, in fact, an actual person, and institutes broad protections for employees against their employers (protected right to unionize, protections for whistleblowers, pension laws for companies, etc.). The New Capitalists do not give a single shit about democratized workplaces, positively or negatively, as long as they pay their taxes.
[X][IDEALS] Social Democrat: Centered around the idea that it is the state's responsibility to ensure a bare-minimum standard of living, the Social Democrats add to the New Capitalist agenda with a push for a government guarantee of adequate housing, food, and water to all citizens -- itself a fairly titanic task. It remains rooted in the fundamental ideal of private enterprise. The Social Democrats have some interest in the potential of democratized workplaces and are willing to support them in an experimental measure.
[X][IDEALS] Socialist: Having come to refer to a specific political movement rather than an entire branch of ideology, modern socialism is focused on giving the state the power to care for all citizens, and claims that the modern Social Democrat platform does not go far enough in pursuit of this. It also calls for a massive investment into healthcare in order to revitalize the field and make sure that there are enough medical professionals to go around (long-term, they want free healthcare, but there needs to be enough of it first). They also grant unions extensive privileges over private employers. They are fervently in favor of democratized workplaces, and openly campaign in favor of granting them special concessions.
[X][TEXT] The old Constitution had its flaws, but it was a document of many strengths as well. It lasted two and a half centuries. We shall honor that and preserve the original. Our changes will be amendments, as intended, with our population approving them as specified in the text.
[X][TEXT] The Constitution serves as a broad guide for the structure of this document, and many legal concepts integral to it carry through, but it is rewritten from the ground up to serve its new situation rather than simply amending it until it fits.
[X][CRUSH] None. This is a democracy. If your ideology cannot make its case to the people in practice, it deserves to fail.
[X][CRUSH] Some of the central tenets of the founding government's ideology are written into foundational law, making it difficult for even violently opposed successor governments to fully roll them back without immense popular support.
[X][POWER] You are a devolved unitary state with subordinate governments formed or dissolved by central governmental decrees according to need
[X][POWER] You are a centralized federal state along the lines of the later United States.
[X][REVIEW] The new Constitution will serve just fine with a standardized system for proposing amendments.

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Social Democrat is preferred, willing to take a step in either direction as long as it is on the moderate side of both general descriptions.
No outright force against people with badwrong ideologies.
Keep most of the bill of rights, just start adding much more stuff in there. Willing to change government structure in other ways.
We live in a world surrounded by existential threats to us, too much decentralisation will make it difficult to respond.
An outright constitutional review makes it easier for rights to get rolled back if it the review happens to fall into a time that happens to be more authoritarian than average.
 
The vote is closed. Somebody, please get me a tally.
Mal-3 said:
Uh huh. Mate, I'm in this to punch plaid Nazis and slip as many science fiction references as I can into our bouncing baby socialist experiment. I ain't here to be railroaded because you've decided we chose the wrong setup. If I wanted to be shit on from on high because I'm Doing It Wrong, I can get back to posting my fanfic. (Probably should do that anyway, past due on the next chapter. Anyway.) So, you know, fair warning.
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Okay. Your economy is smaller than IRL Guatemala's right now. Its strength is such that the SocDem's promise to secure basic food, water, and shelter for all citizens is considered a serious and significant initiative.

If you want to start from that position and have no economic crises, I don't think I can help you.

I do not care what options you vote for. Vote communist. Vote capitalist. Vote whatever the hell you like. I don't care. I do not care. If you are not prepared to accept that, I will at least thank you to quit taking every single opportunity to accuse me of acting in bad faith. If I was so invested in capitalism, I'd be doing a better job of prodding the tally in that direction. I wouldn't have clarified that bonus protectionism is actually a serious concern. I wouldn't have shifted the political spectrum so far left that modern-day left-wing politics can be described as centrist in the first place! If I wanted this capitalist, it would be capitalist. And if railroading was something that appealed to me, I'd write bloody fanfic.

In case it's not clear: I am not even remotely interested in who wins, here. You are incorrect.
Opifex-Plebian said:
an Example please?
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Name: Sandra Smith (female)

Political Affiliation: Socialist

Description of Personality: Sandra is a war hawk in the new government, pushing for as swift a military expansion as possible. She is personally charming, but intense enough to be slightly off-putting. She supports the Socialist party because she believes that workers' coops will do a better job of getting the economy back on track.
Ghostdevil said:
Oh hey!
I have the most Comments in the thread
Take that @PoptartProdigy
:p
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I will reclaim my crown!
Novus Ordo Mundi said:
...we need to rectify this soon. How does one win without pizza?

Also, as an aside, what is the state of anime and manga right now, @PoptartProdigy
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Far reduced given Imperial Japan's spending priorities. Military's getting a lot, the rest of the economy has shrunk significantly. What is there has fewer WWII apologist overtones and more modern-day imperializing nationalist overtones.
 
Holy shit, I just got in under the wire. I hadn't finished reading through the thread yet but I decided to make my vote now on a whim.
 
I'm curious.

Will political factions/parties be decided neaty into the numbers of vite for each of the four tendencies? Or will the spread be determined by the varied voting patterns?

Ie:
Far Right: NC
Right: NC/SocDem
Centre Right: SocDem
Centre: SocDen/Socialist
Centre Left: Socialist
Left: Socialist/Communist
Far Left: Communist
(Reminder that scale is relative to position of centre)

?
 
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PoptartProdigy said:
Far reduced given Imperial Japan's spending priorities. Military's getting a lot, the rest of the economy has shrunk significantly. What is there has fewer WWII apologist overtones and more modern-day imperializing nationalist overtones.
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Right, so now we have to take back anime as well as pizza and baseball. Oh, and America as well.

Holy shit Chicago has a lot on it's plate. :D

I may have missed it, but what's the rule on Omakes?
 
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PoptartProdigy said:
Somebody, please get me a tally.
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Gotcha covered!
Adhoc vote count started by Ptolemy on Mar 16, 2019 at 1:02 PM, finished with 744 posts and 131 votes.
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Rat King said:
The way overtime laws currently function, at least in CA, is that if they do work overtime, they get paid 1.5x their rate for hours worked over 40 hours a week/over 8 hours a day, 2x rate on all hours on the 7th consecutive day of work.

Speaking personally, I don't have an issue with people working overtime as long as they are properly compensated and it's not exploitative and they have the option to not work overtime if they don't want to (without fear of retaliation/losing their job).
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Only California does the over 8 hours a day thing.
 
Alright, two tallies with the same results, and one by a person who I know voted socialist. I'm confident that nobody's fudging. The Social Democrats take leadership of government. Given the overwhelming Socialist minority, the two may form a coalition government.

No advantages to the ruling party are written into foundational law.

The new Constitution shall be reviewed every thirty years. If found to be needful, it will be held to extensive revision and possible rewriting.

The government is structured with self-governing geographical districts firmly subordinate to a federal government, as with the old USA.

The new Constitution echoes the original very strongly, but the text is entirely new to reflect the modern situation.
Novus Ordo Mundi said:
Right, so now we have to take back anime as well as pizza and baseball. Oh, and America as well.

Holy shit Chicago has a lot on it's plate. :D

I may have missed it, but what's the rule on Omakes?
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If I like them and they contradict no points of canon (to which the player base will not always be privy), I add them to the canon.
I may do bonuses. Not yet sure.
 
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